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WildWest
08-08-2002, 09:06 PM
Ohhh yea! Gotta luv it, vacume tube amplification on board. Bet this puppy ain't cheap eh?
MikE
08-08-2002, 09:42 PM
That link was making the rounds at AA last month. Turned into a big joke with "tube motherboard" both the cure all and curse of everything known to mankind. Actually, it's rather cool is'nt it.

MikE
gonefishin
08-08-2002, 09:58 PM
You guys are thinkin' all wrong. Nobody wants a big full size computer anymore...they all want small...personal computers you can carry in your pocket.

So my idea is to make an all tube personal PC.



:D I know...good idea ;)
Rob
08-08-2002, 10:19 PM
Originally posted by gonefishin
You guys are thinkin' all wrong. Nobody wants a big full size computer anymore...they all want small...personal computers you can carry in your pocket.

So my idea is to make an all tube personal PC.



:D I know...good idea ;)

Gonefishin,

Such a computer would warm a lot of pockets! It would be an experiment in distributed computing, sort of like the Borg Collective, since no single pocket would be big enough to house enough of a vacuum tube computer to do anything. Personal PC? Hardly.

Shouldn't this have been posted in new technologies? :)

Rob
WildWest
08-09-2002, 07:39 AM
LOL MiKe...Heck yea! I thought it was kewl as h e l l!!! Tooooo much. Tubes in a puter? Gotta luv it!
Thatch_Ear
08-09-2002, 11:40 AM
What was the name of the vacuum tube computer built by the English during WWII? I uderstand that thing was still working great when they took it apart more than a decade later and that it used basically only one tube type in the actual computing section. Thousands of tubes. Big ones too. Still a classified design last I heard. Wow!
Thatch_Ear
08-09-2002, 12:00 PM
If I can get this gif to load check out the tubes of the Eniac (just a few of the close to 18,000.
No pics but a URL for the Colossus built by the Brits for help to break the German's Enigma settings for their coded transmissions.
<www.retrobeep.com/mainPages/colossus.htm>
gonefishin
08-09-2002, 12:10 PM
By the looks of it...that man would be nice and toasty in the middle of winter...with the furnace turned off!